A fan asked jazz guitarist John Scofield the difference between a seventh chord and an eleventh chord, or something like that. Scofield, who was speaking at the Jazz Fest Music Heritage Stage did his best to answer. I had no earthly idea what he was talking about, but I enjoyed the precision and apparent humor of the response. Is this the sort of thing great guitarists are thinking about?

I bet the Twangorama boys know all about seventh chords and elevenths and even minor elevenths, which, as best I could tell, Scofield believes are unrelated to the seventh/eleventh controversy. Twangorama put on a magical show a little earlier in the afternoon at the Lagniappe Stage. Your eyes told you that the members of the trio were playing their guitars quite differently, but the sound sometimes seemed to be coming from one instrument. Hypnotic.

My favorite thing was when Jimmy Robinson would grasp the neck of his guitar and give it a tug, presumably to stretch the strings a little. I've seen him do it before. It seems so splendidly primitive within such sophisticated playing.